AN ENORMOUS prehistoric bone found on a British beach could have belonged to the biggest elephant ever to walk the Earth.
Brothers Luke and Joe Ferguson discovered the giant fossil which is believed to have come from either an ancient “straight-tusked elephant” or a woolly mammoth.
A fossil expert said the extraordinary find could be up to 125,000 years old.
The pair, who have been collecting fossils since childhood, found it sticking up out of shingle “like a giant chicken bone” after a recent cliff fall on the south-west coast of the Isle of Wight, near Brighstone Bay.
Joe, 28, said: “It was like any normal day. We usually go down to the south coast beaches to find dinosaur fossils. We have been doing it since we were kids.
“It is honestly the find of a lifetime. It doesn’t get better than that.”
